puppetmaster start fails (agent node setup quest)

As I'm running "puppet agent -t" in the second task in the "agent node setup" quest, I get an error that connection is refused to port 8140. After some checking I find in /var/log/puppetlabs/puppetserver/puppetserver.log following:

Task 5 in the Resource Ordering quest asks you to copy /etc/ssh/sshd_config to sshd/files/sshd_config. The puppet user doesn't have permissions to read that file, hence the permission denied error you're seeing. We're planning to release a fix for this in the coming week, but until then, changing the permissions will fix it and allow you to properly restart the service.